(Closed) Big list of poems

Put this magent on your fridge Because we just can’t wait to share this special day with you so remember to save the date! ____________

We are getting married, and we can hardly wait! We want you to be with us, so be sure to save the date!

===================== For Attendants

After the wedding when our loved ones have gone and the fragrance of flowers has lingered til dawn.

When the last piece of cake at the table is cut, the lights have all dimmed and the doors have been shut.

When everything is quiet, our memories made and each flower petal is starting to fade,

It’s then in that moment my thoughts will be free, to think of how special you’ve made this for me.

After the wedding and all the years through, I’ll remember the day my dreams had come true.

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It’s hard to believe that in just a short while Barry and I will walk down the aisle, and there’s nothing that would give me more joy and more pride than to have you right there right by my side. __________________

The day, the dress The bride, the groom The joy, the tears Will all come so soon

Professing true love To my husband-to-be With family and friends All watching me

I hope the sun will Be shining down Keep your fingers crossed That I’ll fit in my gown But there’s one more thing That there needs to be And that’s to have you Standing with me! _____________

You welcomed me with open arms, When I was strange and new. You treat me as a sister would, and now it’s coming true!

Here we are some time away, from *****, our wedding day! I’ve picked the colors and started all our plans, My maid of honor’s been chosen, as well as his Best Man.

But still, there are those Special Ones Who have been there all the way. The bridesmaids and the ushers, who are in our hearts to stay!

So just to make it official, we ask you in this way to be at my side as my bridesmaid and share our Special Day? ____________

Flip Flop Gift Soon at the alter Groom and i will meet, For standing up beside me you are so sweet, So after the ceremony when you are tired and beat, Just put these flip flops on your feet. ______________

Canvas Bag of Necessities This Bridesmaid gift was made just for you, So you can be cared for all the day through.

A hand-sewn bag made with much love, For all your support that held me like a glove.

A hoodie to wear while your hair is getting set. So you won’t get your lovely dress wet.

Hair spray to keep your hair in place, A mirror to check out our beautiful face.

Lotion to keep your fingers dry, A packet of tissues incase you should cry.

Lip gloss in case your lips should chap, You know this bride is watching your back.

Gum to keep your breath feeling fresh so you can have fun, Clear nail polish in case you should have a run.

A nail file to prevent those runs I mentioned before, I want to prepare you for what may be instore.

Band-Aids in case your shoes are not feeling OK, A pair of flip flops to dance the night away.

Thank you so much for all you have done, Your support, your love, and all of the fun.

There are no words to express how lucky I feel, To have friends like you, friendship so real.

I hope this little gift helps you and brings you some glee, It’s just a little thanks from your bride-to-be.

===================== For the Bride

A Basket of Candles For bride name

A basket of candles That come in a pair In all different colors, For you two to share The white ones burn first They are wrapped in white lace To celebrate your first married night In your new chosen place The green pair is taller, and also much thinner Burn with the first company, you have over for dinner The dark blue candles are for after your first fight Use them to burn while making up all night Pink candles set the mood and pave the way For your first married Valentine’s Day Now, when your first year of marriage is through The cream anniversary pair, will light for you two. Red candles aflame, both your futures are bright. Celebrate promotions you’ve worked toward with all of your might. By this time we hope, maybe, just maybe You can light the purple ones, on the birth of your baby, And just when you thought, you’d put these away Take the light blue ones out-for your fifth anniversary day. Now just one more pair left-for the big 2 5 The anniversary pair that will keep your love alive Congratulations bride and groom (enter names) On the start of your forever May the two of you always be happy together And burn these candles Just the way we said But please don’t forget-blow them out before bed!

With love, Your bridal party

===================== Thank you

For Mother in Law: You are the other mother I received The day I wed your son And I just want to thank you mom For the loving things you’ve done You’ve given me a gracious man With whom I share my life You are his loving mother And I his lucky wife You used to pat his little head And now I hold his hand You raised in love a little boy And then gave me the man.

For Parents: You were always there to help me You were always there to guide me You were always there to laugh with me You were always there to cry with me But most important you were always there to love me and I want to assure you that I am always here to love you

================================== Program Fan

We wish you happiness,and good health. Please use this fan to cool yourself. Take it with you when you go away to use again another day.

======================== Favors

Hershey’s Hugs & Kisses: A hug, A kiss, A promise to treasure Thank you for sharing in our first day of forever! –or– A spoonful/bagful etc., of love 2 hearts/hugs & 2 kisses Ryan & Lindsay are now Mr. & Mrs.!! –or– Hugs & Kisses from the new Mr. & Mrs.

===================== For a Kiss

If you’d like to see us kiss, We are happy to abide; But a love song you must sing, To both the groom and bride.

As a table, please stand up, Whether far or near; and sing with loud voices, So everyone can hear.

You can chime “More than Words,” Or Etta James’ “At Last;” It doesn’t matter to us, Just avoid the clinking glass.

So come on and join in, in our happily wedded bliss; And indeed you’ll be rewarded, By seeing the newlyweds kiss! _______

Rules for Kissing! The Holiday Inn asks That you not ‘clink’ your glass, to get Terry and Nancy to kiss. To achieve what you’re after (and generate laughter) the thing that you must do is this:

Get your noggins’ together, You birds of a feather, many heads are better than one. Put down your drink, what you must do is think. If you want to see the deed done.

Come up with a song, rhyme or skit – not too long! the word LOVE it must contain. Then all stand up and sing, recite, act – do your thing, yourselves do not restrain.

If the folks at your table don’t think that they’re able, to demonstrate talent like this, there’s one other option, (but use it with caution) to get Terry and Nancy to kiss. ____________________

If you’d like us to kiss We’d be happy to abide But clinking isn’t enough For this groom and bride

So gather up your table Prepare yourselves to sing You must use the word “love” Or we won’t do our thing. _____

In the jar, for our pleasure, and memories to treasure, some printed instructions you’ll find. You just come up and take one, Then do it! – you’ll have fun, and nobody here’s going to mind.

Don’t think you can do it? Or simply get through it? It’ll cost you – a fine you must pay. One single loonie, or maybe a toonie, and everything will be okay.

After clapping and laughter, you’ll get what you’re after, the newlyweds are sure to embrace. You worked hard and earned it, and now we’ll return it, just for the look on your face!

written by Nancy and Terry, for our wedding in August 2002. The jar contained slips of paper each with one thing written on it like “Kiss your partner”, or “Do a little tap dance”, or “Hug the flowergirl” – things like that. What ended up happening was our guests added to the rules by judging each “performance” – loud appreciation and you were off the hook – not-so-loud appreciation and you paid a $5.00 fine to the jar. They also decided to apply this to the songs and rhymes, too.

All proceeds from the jar were donated to a Christian children’s charity called CHILDCARE INTERNATIONAL. Because everyone knew this, they were exceedingly generous – beyond anything we had imagined! Even the smallest children participated, begging loonies from parents and grandparents to put in the jar.

======================= Wedding Readings

The Native American Wedding Prayer

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth to each other. Now there is no more loneliness, for each of you will be companion to each other. Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place, to enter your days of togetherness. _________

The Ragged Wood by William Butler Yeats

O, hurry, where by water, among the trees, The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh, When they have looked upon their images Would none had ever loved but you and I!

Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky, When the sun looked out of his golden hood? O, that none ever loved but you and I!

O hurry to the ragged wood, for there I will drive all those lovers out and cry O, my share of the world, O, yellow hair! No one has ever loved but you and I. _______________

Love needs to be set alight again and again, and in thanks for tending it, will do its very best not to consume us. – William Matthews, from “After All: Last Poems”

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So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition– Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. ~William Shakespeare ________________

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist, poet, philosopher.

“They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.” – Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist.

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.” – Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Syrian-born American poet, novelist.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904), O Magazine, February 2004

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau _______________________

Why Marriage? by Mari Nichols-Haining

Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person, With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body…

Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me, Who won’t hold them against me, Who loves me when I’m unlikable, Who sees the small child in me, and Who looks for the divine potential of me…

Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night With someone who thanks God for me, With someone I feel blessed to hold…

Because marriage means opportunity To grow in love in friendship…

Because marriage is a discipline To be added to a list of achievements…

Because marriages do not fail, people fail When they enter into marriage Expecting another to make them whole…

Because, knowing this, I promise myself to take full responsibility For my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness I create me, I take half of the responsibility for my marriage Together we create our marriage…

Because with this understanding, The possibilities are limitless.

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Wedding Bliss

There is nothing sweeter than a happy married life, the wonderful companionship you’ll share as man and wife. there is nothing greater than a love which time endears. A love that will bring contentment to you both, throughout the years.

The wedding ring you will give and wear is a symbol of the love you share, it is a circle-never-ending. As your lives and love are blending Today may the goodness of your love bless Your lives with endless happiness.

======================= Guest Book

Our guest book is this photo frame We’d love to have you sign your name And write, perhaps, a line or two By which we may remember you

Then, when our wedding day has passed Our memories of this day will last For when we look at it, we’ll see Kind words from Friends and Family ____________

Weddings are more than just rings and tossed rice In leiu(sp?) of a geustbook we ask for well wishes and advice So grab a pen and paper, write what you wish Just remember to sign your name before putting it in the dish _____________

As we begin our journey – A brand new Mr. and Mrs. We surely could use Your advice and good wishes.

Share with us your wisdom About marriage love and life The secret to being a good husband Or a top notch, first rate wife

Jot down a memory, A reminder of our day. A doodle or picture will do If you don’t know what to say.

Please don’t forget – It would be such a shame Don’t drop your card in the bowl Without signing your name.

Whatever you pen, We’re sure to treasure Long after this day has passed, Your words will bring us pleasure

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Along with your Name Please Write Thoughts and Wishes to the New Mr. and Mrs. ______________

From each of your experiences, Comes a very treasured gift, a piece of knowledge, we didn’t know exists.

Please share with us your wisdom, about marriage, love, and life, How to be a loving husband, or the perfect wife.

Please write your Thoughts and gestures, to share with us for life, for the greatest gift of all, is the gift of your advice.

======================== Shower Gifts

Note for recipe card for shower

Remember when a bride is new She may not be sure just what to do Many a fine dinner’s [bride’s name] will cook As long as she knows just where to look A cookbook is perfect for that bill We thought we’d help her if you will Instructions for cake, ingrediants for soup This book will come from the entire group So, on this card, jot down your favorite recipe For a lovely cookbook for the bride to be _______________________

Poem for Household Gift Here are some tips from us to you: To help your marriage stick like glue Oh, how fantastic marriage can be it’s true! No longer solo in a few weeks The pledge you and Bentley make is for keeps. Though you are glad that you have found a genuine honey who wisked you off the ground, marriage you will soon discover is certainly not equal. As you concentrate vividly on your next trial Bentley will probably have been napping awhile. Bentley is very loving, with a bounce in his step, too– because he is getting it all with you! The two of you together it’s plain to see fit each other to a tea. You and Bentley should never shout because that’s not what marriage is about. Treat each other with kid gloves, give each other lots of hugs, and the measure of your success will be the happiness you possess. Face each day with cheer and you both will have a zestful first year. To snuggle and caress is the key to happiness–and it’s free! May love and joy fill your hearts all the way and let’s hope May 26th is not filled with rain but sunlight that day. We know that the days of your married life will be X-tra bright as your love increases after each little fight. And may the dove of peace bring a bounty of love to your life.

============================= Rehearsal Dinner Poem

Before (Bride) and (Groom) can walk down the aisle We must get together for a quick wedding trial

The rehearsal will begin at (time) on the dot Where the Mr. and Mrs. will soon tie the knot

Once we have practiced we hope you will stay We will gather for dinner before we part ways. ________________

Three nights before Their wedding festivities, The bride and groom Have planned some activities

Before the chatter of guests, Bouquet tosses, and “I do’s” The wedding party Has some rehearsing to do

We’ll practice until We’ve got our steps down Then we’re headed to Timonium For dinner in town

You are invited to join us at 5:30 pm for the rehearsal at Cloisters Castle 10440 Falls Road

Compliments of the newlyweds, To help you feel your best! Just use a little…freshen up, And leave for other guests!

If your skin feels dry, your hair out of place, Your throat is parched, or whatever the case. We’ve put this together to help you along, Now get yourself out there before the next song!

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-Bathroom Poem-

So happy you’re here to share in our special day!

But should something happen to go astray, Please help yourself to the contents within, Wet wipe, hand lotion, and even aspirin, Use only what you need and leave the rest, It may also be useful to another guest, So repair the damage that may have been done, Then hurry on back and join in the fun!

Compliments of the newlyweds!

===================== Table Cameras

Here is a camera Please use it a lot, To take pictures of What the photographer will not.

The flash is required Because it is night. If you don’t use it, The snaps won’t come out right.

Hold the front switch over ‘Til the little light flutters. You’re all ready now!! So please press the shutter.

The perfect distance Is four to ten feet. Any nearer or farther Will be your defeat.

At the end of the evening With all film exposed, Return to the best man, Who’ll develop the photos.

The bride and groom have a request So put on a big smile And look your best When you see some fun Take the hint You snap the camera And we’ll make the print!

Take this camera and have some fun Get some pictures of everyone! Maybe you’ll see something We didn’t see That we can keep as a memory!

See this camera sitting here — It’s for your use, we say. To help us capture memories On this, our wedding day. Share the camera among the guests. Some candid shots please take. Then leave the camera when you’re done. An album we will make. You’ve helped to make our special day Complete with love and laughter. Thank you all so very much For the memories you did capture!

To celebrate this special day, Pick a camera and really play. Leave it on the table when you are through, So Carrie and Robert can develop the pictures taken by you.

This is a very special gift for Anne and Bob to see. The Reason it’s so special is, ‘Cause it’s from you and me.

Take a posed or candid snapshot and when all the film is through, leave the camera by the door so they’ll have these memories of you.

Please take pictures throughout the night This camera is here for your delight Table shots, candids, the bride & groom, whatever you like throughout the room.

Join in the fun on our special day; Capture some memories in your own special way. Take a few pictures and then pass it on; leave it on the table when the exposures are gone! We can’t wait to see what develops!

Pick me up and use me Take pictures of you Pull me a face And make me laugh And don’t forget to use the flash

I’m a little camera Short and Stout Pick me up And point me out

Get under the table, Stand up on a chair, Hang from the rafters, Give someone a scare. Whatever you do to make them all laugh Remember me, and my little flash